Monthly Archives: February 2010

A movie about noth­ing, with­out all the humor of a show about noth­ing. It felt a lit­tle like the Sat­ur­day Night Live skit spin-off movies, mean­ing it was a clever idea that works well for a short, but falls short … Con­tinue read­ing →

I really had high hopes for Dis­trict 9. It sounded like a intrigu­ing premise, and I had read some promis­ing reviews about the pic­ture when it came out. Unfor­tu­nately, high expec­ta­tions often lead to dis­ap­point­ment, and that’s what hap­pened here. … Con­tinue read­ing →

The next check mark on my list of 17 movies to see before Oscar night was “The Hurt Locker.” The film gave a very inti­mate (almost too close) ride-along expe­ri­ence with an elite Army bomb squad team in Bagh­dad. This … Con­tinue read­ing →

The next film from my list of 17 movies to see before Oscar night was Pre­cious. It’s a modern-day Job story where instead of a pious and pros­per­ous man with every thing to lose, the tests of long painful suf­fer­ing … Con­tinue read­ing →